There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Wisdom begins at the end.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Appearances often are deceiving.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Resist much. Obey little.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens